INNERmessages

[stop the mind from turning]

Tail-ligHts silEnt retreat

Sudden ease and comfort

Time flIeS away, left a cloud and a star,

The mind dips to zero, breaks like a jar.

IN the center of a spinning storm, NOthing MOVES.

On the edges, tossed off FORever.

DESIRE IS a circle,

never REACHing inwarD.

StOp the mind from turning.

KEEP the heart from churning.

COOL[!] the body from burning.

Quell the mind FROM yearning.

Sky over green land over Sea BLUE.

White lights, sterile floors, cold indoORs.

Passing souls, FEELINGS like needles and pins,

Nobody loses, nobody wins.

RISK open HEART -

            Floods and Rivers come and go -

                        LET GO, Fall backwards, THINK TOO SLOW.

The color blue, but fighting red.

The crane's bill, but the bird’s heart IS dead.

Always caught unawares, what A BLESSING.

My steps become(s) unnumbered AND NOticed.

Always leaves, a light breeze, my MIND clear(s).

Out of the clatter, the RAIN’s infinite spatters.

And those SPINning leaveS, LIKE little TORNADOS.

IT ALL goes and FLOWs to a CENTER.

Fill the mind with learning, and then it's empty again.

What A RELIEF, to give up belief

IN the NEED to hold on to anything.

Out FLOWS the HEART for YEARNING.

And stills the picture -  a world like glass,

STOPs the MIND from TURNING, and REFLECTS the LIGHT at last.

NO ENDING IS PLANNED OR POSSIBLE.

c. 2007, miCHAEL A. guy. all RightS reServed